Beijing Olympics vs London 2012: let the inferiority complex begin
August 9, 2008
Just listening to former London mayor Ken Livingstone talking about the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony on BBC Radio 4's Today.
Evan Davies: How does London compete with that?
Ken Livingstone: We have to be honest: we can't.
Yikes. For more scepticism on 2012 see TW columnist Danny Rogers, who this week points out that better transport infrastructure should be a priority. Travel Rants said something similar the other day in a post about British tourist boards.
If hotels.com figures reported by Kev at Travolution are to be believed, the benefits might not even be that great - the Olympics seems to have brought a relatively small 30,000 extra visitors to China.
Nathan Midgley
Martin Couzins
